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M 2.3md

2 km S of Humacao, Puerto Rico

· 13 km deep · released about 98 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.3 (md)
Depth
13 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Humacao Municipio, 4 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 309 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 98 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 150,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 110,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 9.8× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.3 about 98 lb of TNT

Energy from the Gutenberg–Richter relation (log10E = 1.5M + 4.8), rounded to two figures; bar length is magnitude, which is already a logarithm of energy. Magnitudes of past earthquakes from the USGS catalogue.

Where

Epicentre 18.1243, -65.8235. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Humacao Municipio, PR 4 km (3 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Humacao Municipio
Yabucoa Municipio, PR 8 km (5 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Yabucoa Municipio
Las Piedras Municipio, PR 9 km (5 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Las Piedras Municipio
Naguabo Municipio, PR 13 km (8 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Naguabo Municipio
Juncos Municipio, PR 14 km (9 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Juncos Municipio
Maunabo Municipio, PR 16 km (10 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Maunabo Municipio

Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.

Aftershocks so far

49 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.

  1. 2.5 1 km W of Santa Clara, Puerto Rico
  2. 1.5 6 km S of Central Aguirre, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.5 4 km ESE of Pájaros, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.6 2 km WSW of G. L. Garcia, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.0 2 km SSW of Vázquez, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.0 11 km SSE of Punta Santiago, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.0 0 km WSW of Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico
  8. 1.9 0 km SW of G. L. Garcia, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.6 26 km SE of El Negro, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.1 3 km NNW of Palomas, Puerto Rico
  11. 3.0 30 km SSW of Esperanza, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.3 5 km W of Campo Rico, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.8 8 km NE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  14. 1.6 1 km SW of G. L. Garcia, Puerto Rico
  15. 1.8 7 km ESE of G. L. Garcia, Puerto Rico

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of . QuakeIndex does not forecast aftershocks. When USGS issues an operational aftershock forecast it appears on the USGS event page.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.8 on 2021-10-08 — it released about 4,900 times the energy of this one.

From the QuakeIndex catalogue, built from the USGS FDSN event service.

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